Renewables are now forecast to overtake coal to become the world's largest source of electricity generation in the next few years.
The global energy crisis is said to be driving an extraordinary acceleration in solar and wind power.
The International Energy Agency has predicted that the amount of electricity generated by wind turbines and solar panels will more than double in the next five years and account for almost 20% of global power generation by 2027.
That will boost total renewable power output, including hydro power, to some 38% of the global electricity mix - up from 28% last year.
Coal's share of global electricity supplies are expected to decline from 36% last year to 30% by 2027, and natural gas from 23% to 21%.
The Times said the agency predicted that more than 90% of power generation capacity installed globally in the next five years will be renewable.
Scotland loses climate-change lead
Meanwhile Scotland has lost its lead over the rest of the UK on tackling climate change, government advisers have warned.
A report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions has "largely stalled" in recent years.
Its independent assessment said Scotland's targets - some of the toughest in the world - were "increasingly at risk".
But the Scottish Government insisted progress was being made in many areas.
It has set a legally-binding target to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero by 2045, five years ahead of the date set for the UK as a whole.
As a staging post, it legislated in 2019 to cut emissions by a massive 75% from 1990 baseline levels by the end of this decade.
Emissions reduction
That is way ahead of the UK Government's aim to reduce emissions by 68% in the same time frame.
The latest CCC report points out that, since its Climate Change Act became law in 2009, the Scottish Government has failed to achieved seven of the 11 legal targets.
Although it met the latest one, for 2020, it said that was because the Covid pandemic saw a temporary drop in transport emissions and that the figures will rebound in future years.
CCC chief executive Chris Stark told the BBC he did not think the Scottish Government was doing nearly enough to get on track with its legal targets.
He said: "We have seen failures across the board and it's a shame to say that. This year we are able to say Scotland has lost its lead in decarbonising. "Scotland is at the same rate now as the rest of the UK and that did not used to be the case."